Re: RFC: upstreaming debian/patches/exec_filename_* and the dde stuff

[Samuel Thibault]

Ludovic Courtès, le Sun 06 Apr 2014 22:44:12 +0200, a écrit :
> Indeed, few of the patches at
> <http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/hurd/1:0.5.git20140326-1> look
> Debian-specific.
> 
> For features that are not “fully baked” yet, like DDE, wouldn’t it make
> sense to have a branch in the Hurd repo, instead of a set of patches in
> Debian?

Well, it's *already* a branch, in the incubator.
There are some patches over that branch which lie in the Debian, which I
haven't applied to the incubator because they make our DDE copy diverge
even more from what was taken directly from upstream, while we'd like at
some point to just push them upstream so they can profit everybody, but
"upstream" has not really opened still.

> As for patches for which review “never completed”, there should really
> be a timeout IMO, and the patch should be either rejected for everyone
> (including Debian), or accepted, or amended.

It's a matter of doing it, yes.

Samuel